Tenor had a good video guide of how to skip ads for short videos on YouTube with link changes. I used it to Rick Roll a friend once, not sure if it still works, though: https://media.tenor.com/x8v1oNUOmg4AAAAM
you motherfu-
Omg did you just reinvent YouTube?!?
Thank you. I needed this.
I give up, this has really let me down.
You aren’t doing youtube correctly.
PC: firefox + ublock origin, freetube
Mobile: revanced, newpipe
How does one Rick roll people who don’t do YouTube correctly, which is most everyone?
Those people? We don’t interact with those people.
Touché
Are you rick-rolling yourself? Derp.
Honestly, I have Firefox + ublock origin in Mobile too
and sponsorblock 👌
I have all 3 options on mobile as well
Same.
FreeTube has an Android fork now that works just as well as the PC version.
https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid/releases
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I can’t believe I’m about to suggest this, but use a YouTube short version since those don’t have ads.
Tenor’s has a guide that shows you how to make a full video link into a Shorts style link to not have ads at the beginning: https://media.tenor.com/x8v1oNUOmg4AAAAM
Wow, a legitimate use case for shorts.
Nice! May I recommend you share that with all of our professional rickrollers? (Or may I share it there?)
I’ve literally rickrolled thousands of people and i didn’t hesitate for a second to click on that link. wow. (﹏;)
Go for it!
Rick Roll is only effective on people using ad blockers
Given that ad block users are usually tech savvy and have been around the net a while: We already know the URL and can detect Rick Rolls before clicking on shit.
I have an ad blocker and I tend to recognise the link, but even when I do, I ~choose to click on it for the fun of it.😌
Yup I will usually happily walk into a rick roll. I just enjoy the music. lol
Sad reality indeed that to punk an online user with this classic requires for the said user to be tech savvy
Wrong! I blocked the link with my adblock.
Lazy, I just recognize the url from getting rick rolled so much.
XcQ
XcQ, link stays blue
A friend of mine helped me set up a Star Trek automation where the lights turn on and a Star Trek LCARS video plays on my TV.
Went to demo it only tk discover he’d changed the link to a rickroll. I love that trolling bastard
lmao that’s a good one
Eh, too much work.
XcQ, no thank you!
I don’t mind adverts for free services but YouTube take the piss now.
And Amazon. Paying Prime members still have to watch ads.
Fuck u peasant! What are you going to do about it?
Pirate Content?
Use VPN to get YouTube premium for India price?
🐸
Even premium isn’t safe nowadays
What ticks me off is Stack TV. I pay for it and I still get huge ads on the bottom and right edges, telling me to subscribe to Stack TV.
Cant you just use a thirdparty youtube ui url?
dwXcQ
Watch this vid for a good explanation on how to avoid the issue:
https://music.apple.com/us/music-video/never-gonna-give-you-up/1559900284Oh, oh, oh! Thanks! I think I’ll click on it right now.
Ed. Damnit
Wasn’t there someone who bought youtube ads and had the ad be a rick roll?
I was saved by the cookie approval pop-up tho.
It is official, vanilla internet is fucked.
Just use a different site here
You could try SoundCloud, been spending a lot more time over there lately.
A Rick Roll is a link to a domain that disables your ability to close your browser and maxes your volume.
Youtube links have never been Rick rolls.
If seen a lot of pointless gatekeeping in my day but this one may take the cake for most meaningless.
relevant username
I disagree. This is an important issue
Hmph, speak for yourself. I dunno how you sleep at night, what with all your illegitimate Rick rolls 'n such
I dunno how you sleep at night
Very well, actually. You should check out !SleepTips@lemmy.world, it might change your life!
I hate you
I see someone doesn’t understand the definition of Rick Rolling…
Dude… my kid will never get to experience this. I didn’t even know this existed. Every other one of the links in here was waiting for me to hit play, too.
What app are you using? The dev clearly knows their shit
LOL! What app are you using to give such a warning?
Sync, it was my reddit client for years
This is just false, I don’t know where you got this idea
You can’t do either of those things on modern web browsers lol, what are you talking about?
exactly, old-fashioned Rick Roll was dead long before youtube ads
